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Fascinating IAMA, and thanks for doing it!

As a mainstream filmmaker, I'm fascinated by just how far ahead the porn industry is in monetising and distributing Web-based video. In fact, a while ago I wrote an article about the way you guys design your websites to promote your shows as efficiently as possible (and how Kink.com's design, frankly, kicks the ass of 99.99% of the rest of the Web video industry). You've clearly got some top-notch talent there (I heard that many of Kink's lighting guys are ex-ILM?) and you're obviously thinking hard about how to make video work on the Web, period.

I'm wondering what lessons you think us non-porn filmmakers should be taking from the porn world to make our own work more successful, or in general, what advice you'd give to a Web-based filmmaker?

Huge fan of Person Of Interest - tremendously smart show. I hardly ever get blindsided by TV series any more, but you guys have managed to hit me with a "never saw it coming" twist three or four times now.

I'm wondering - what storytelling advice would you give to someone in charge of the plot of a long-form series like Person of Interest? I'm in the rather unique position of, in the near future, possibly independently producing a US-format series (for the web rather than TV, admittedly). Obviously, there's not a lot of info out there on how to handle, wrangle and generally manage visual narrative at that sort of length...

Any advice would be much appreciated!

No question, just wanted to say congrats!

As a fellow CG animation person, always inspriational to see something like this!